Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

because others will not pay, and goods
will come to you corresponding with the
sample by which you purchased them,
and coffee will not be chickoried and sugar
will not be sanded, and milk will not be-
chalked and adulteration of food will be a.
state's prison ofense. Ave.. ull things
shall be attuned. Elections in England
and the United States will no more be q
grand carnival of defamation and scurriIity,
but the elevation of righteous men in a
righteous way.
| In the sixteenth century the singers,
called the Fischer brothers, reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest
note ever thrilled was by La Bastardella.
and Catalni's voice had compass Of three
add half octaves, but Christianity is
more wonderful, for it runs all up and
down the greatest heights and the deepest
depths OF the worlds necessity, ana it will
compass everything and bring it in accord
with the song which the morning stars
sang at the laying of the worlds corner
stone. All the sacred music in homes and
concert halls and churches tends toward
this contamination. Make it more and
more hearty. Sing in your families. Sing
in your places of business. If we with
proper spirit use these faculties, we are
reAeafs1ng for the SKIES.
Heaven is to have new song, an en-
tirely new song, but should not wonder if,
as sometime on earth tune is fashioned
out of many tunes, or it is one tune with
the variations, SO some Of the songs of the
redeemed may have playing through them
the songs of earth, and how thrilling as
coming through the great anthem of the
saved, accompanied by harpers with their
harps, and trumpeters with their trumpets,
we should hear some of the strains of
Antioch, and Mount Pisgah, and Corona
ton, and Lenox, and ST. Martins, and
Fountain, and Ariel, and Old Hundred.
How they would bring to mind the praying
CIRCLES. and communion, days, and the
Christmas festivals, and the church wor-
ship IN which on earth we mingled Ihave
no ideathat when we bid farewell to earth
We are to bid farewell to all. these grand.
old Gospel hymns which melted and rap
tured our souls for SO many years..
Now, my friends, if sin is discord
ana righteousness is harmony, let us get
out of the one and enter the other,
After our dreadful civil war was over, and
in the summer of 1869, q great national
elder of this church had been honored by
the selection of some of his music, to be
rendered on that occasion, { accompanied
him to the jubilee. Forty thousand peo-
pie sat and stood in the great Coliseum
erected for that purpose. Thousands Of
wind and stringed instruments. Twelve
thousand trained voices. The masterpieces
of all ages rendered, hour after hour, and
DAY after day-Handeps "Judas Macca-
baus," Spohr's "Last Judgment" Beetho-,
ven's "NIount of Olives" Haydn's aCrea-
Coronation March," rolling on and up in
surges that billowed against the heavens.
The mighty cadence within were accom-
panied on the outside by the ringing of the
bells of the city and cannon on the COM
mons, in exact time with the music dis
charged by electricity, laundering their
awful bars Of q harmony that astoundel all
nations.
Sometimes I bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes the effect was so over
towering 1 felt 1 could not endure it.
When all the voices were in full chorus,
and oil the batons in full wave, and all the
orchestra in full triumph, and hundred
anvils under mighty hammers were in full
clang, and all the towers of the city rolled
in their ma este sweetness, and the whole
building quaked with the boom of thirty
cannon, Parepa Rosa, with voice that
will never again be equaled on earth until
the archangelic voice proclaims that time
shall be no longer, rose above all other
sounds in her rendering of our national
air. the "Star Spangled Banner" 1t was
too much for mortal, and quite enough
for an immortal, to hear, and while some
tainted, one womanly spirit, released
under its power, sped away to be with God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole world peace jubilee, and oil islands
of the sea join the five continents, and all
the voices and musical instruments of all
nations combine, and all the organs that
ever sounded requiem of sorrow sound only
grand march of JOY, and all the bells that
tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and
all the cannon that ever hurled death
across the nations sound to eternal victory,
and over all the acclaim of earth and min
strelsy of Heaven there will be heard one
voice sweeter and mightier than any hui
man or angelic yoice--a voice once full of
tears, but then full of triumph-the voice
of Christ saying: II am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and the
last" Then at the laying of the top stone
of the worlds history the same voices shall
be heard as when, at the laying of the
worlds corner stone, "the morning stars
sang together"